Meta Platforms on Tuesday said it is introducing a translation feature for its WhatsApp messaging service, aiming to ease cross‑language chats among its more than 3 billion users. The translations will initially be available in six languages on Android devices and 19 languages on iPhones, with more languages to follow. “Message translations were designed to…
Lance Whitney / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Microsoft is launching a new Windows AI Labs program. It offers early access to AI features, starting with Paint. The program is available only to select users via an invite in Paint. Those of…
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court has issued notices to the federal and provincial authorities on a petition seeking permission for Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s incarcerated founder Imran Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, to hold conjugal meetings in jail. In response to the petition, Justice Arbab Muhammad Tahir on Tuesday directed the Islamabad chief commissioner, the Punjab…
Nick WagonerSep 23, 2025, 06:00 AM ET Close Nick Wagoner is an NFL reporter at ESPN. Nick has covered the San Francisco 49ers since 2016, having previously covered the St. Louis Rams for 12 years, including three years (2013 to 2015) at ESPN. In over a decade with the company, Nick has led ESPN’s coverage…
IDFA, theInternational Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, on Tuesday unveiled more of the lineup for its 38th edition, including its Short Documentary Competition titles, as well as selections for its Signed, Best of Fests, Current Future, and Paradocs sections, along with the winners of this year’s Film Fund DocLab Interactive Grant. Overall, more than 107 films…
Michelob Ultra has become the top-selling beer in the US two year’s after its parent company’s Bud Light brand lost the title following a consumer backlash. Anheuser-Busch, citing data from Circana, said on Monday that Michelob Ultra overtook Modelo Especial in US retail sales by volume in the year to 14 September. Two years ago,…
Amazon is pivoting its grocery operations in the UK, announcing that it will close 14 of its Amazon Fresh stores in the country. The remaining five Amazon Fresh locations in the UK will be converted to the Whole Foods Market brand. Rather than the brick and mortar shops, Amazon said it will focus on online…
KARACHI: Sindh is set to hold by-elections for 28 vacant local body seats across 14 districts on Wednesday, with polling scheduled from 8 am to 4 pm. A total of 243,187 registered voters, including 133,038 men and 110,154 women, are eligible to vote across 168 polling stations. The by-elections will decide two district council members,…
QUETTA: An explosion struck a railway track in the Dasht area of Mastung district in Balochistan on Tuesday, targeting the Jaffar Express traveling from Peshawar to Quetta and wounding a dozen passengers. Officials said the device was an improvised explosive planted near the track, which detonated as the train passed. The blast caused four bogies…
Pakistan’s sharp decline in poverty has stalled in recent years due to economic shocks and a lack of structural reforms, the World Bank said on Tuesday. The international lender said that between 2001 and 2015, a wave of urbanisation helped reduce the national poverty rate from 64% to 22% by 2019, as rural workers moved…
